Leaders of the antigay right love to accuse liberals of playing the victim card — but some of them, like Tony Perkins (pictured), Brian Brown, and Rick Santorum, are more than willing to play it themselves.
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A few weeks after being honored by GLAAD for its positive LGBT portrayals, ABC Family gets lambasted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins for the same reason.
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“It is fascinating to see [Family Research Council president Tony] Perkins (pictured) promoting ‘tolerance’ considering FRC is listed as a certified Southern Poverty Law Center hate group,” TWO executive director Wayne Besen writes of recent criticism …
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In a 1994 campaign to unseat the late civil rights hero Sen. Edward Kennedy, his Republican opponent wrote a letter pledging to be a better advocate for LGBT equality than the sitting senator. Seventeen years later, that letter still haunts the political fortunes of the candidate who wrote it–former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Romney’s ‘94 letter seeking support from the [...]
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The Family Research Council president has blasted a U.S. Navy
decision permitting chaplains to perform wedding ceremonies for
same-sex couples as “a circumvention of U.S. law.”
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Sirdeaner Walker, whose son killed himself after being subjected to antigay bullying, counters right-wing activist Tony Perkins’s assertions about youth suicides.
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TheWashington Post provided a platform on National Coming Out Day for FRC leader Tony Perkins to blame the gay community for recent youth suicides.
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R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, says he wants his party’s politicos to at least stop the anti-gay rhetoric, even if they can’t embrace civil rights for LGBT Americans.
That view may have tempered the party’s “Pledge to America,” a document outlining what the GOP wants to do if it wins [...]
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Conservatives who follow Mike Huckabee and Family Research Council’s
Tony Perkins are gathering this weekend in Sacramento this weekend for
“The Call” — an event Courage Campaign bloggers are calling “NOM Summer
Tour on steroids.”
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Media Matters and writer Michelangelo
Signorile are highlighting attacks on federal judge
Vaughn Walker by people like Tony Perkins (pictured).
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